From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934604AbdAKUXS (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:23:18 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:39906 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934269AbdAKUWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:22:51 -0500 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa , David Ahern , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 12/13] perf record: Add switch-output time option argument Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:22:10 -0300 Message-Id: <20170111202211.32137-13-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20170111202211.32137-1-acme@kernel.org> References: <20170111202211.32137-1-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by merlin.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jiri Olsa It's now possible to specify the threshold time for perf.data like: $ perf record --switch-output=30s ... Once it's reached, the current data are dumped in to the perf.data. file and session does on. $ perf record --switch-output=30s ... [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 44 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2017010213043746 ] ... The time is expected to be a number with appended unit character - s/m/h/d. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: Wang Nan Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483955520-29063-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 2 ++ tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 3d55d2fd48b3..27256bc68eda 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -427,6 +427,8 @@ based on 'mode' value: "signal" - when receiving a SIGUSR2 (default value) or - when reaching the size threshold, size is expected to be a number with appended unit character - B/K/M/G +